Friend Finder

Free Trial?: Yes (Standard)

# of Members: Almost 3 1/2 Million Active Members!

Relationship Types:

Heterosexual
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual

Regions:

USA
Canada
United Kingdom
Australia
Other

Review:

Relationship test to help you find long-term compatibility - delivers email to you every night with a possible new dating relationship.
This matching service will help you determine the type of relationship you are looking for (this can be useful for the beginner online dating searcher). You can find pen pals, friends only, short-term relationships, and of course, long-term relationships (or even marriage) at Friendfinder.
Largest number of Relationship types to chose from. Groups are broken out by preference (example: Asia Friend, Amigos Friend, ChurchFriend, race or ethnically based). There's also a Senior FriendFinder (see link below).
You can Blog, Chat and Connect as you develop your personal network of friends.
Other extra features offered by FriendFinder include:
- Horoscopes
- Chat rooms arranged by geographic location
- Record a voice message using your phone
- Upload video messages
You'll get a sense of community from this online dating site with the ability to be amoung people with similiar mindset, interests and desires.
FriendFinder is developing a "Friend Network" which will be an online social networking communited connected to the FriendFinder personals.

Two tyupes of memberships - Silver and gold. Silver is about 35% cheaper but has limited searching options.

Watch:

The free ads are rather sketchy. But paid membrships ads are much more detailed, with personalities coming through. One big plus is diversity.

Don't use the free ads as a good example of what you will see when you join. You don't get to use as many options for free, so they can sometimes be a little sketchy.

With such a large membership base, may need to be more aware of "fake" profiles. However, you should be on the lookout for profile inconsistencies on any site you sign up for.